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Migrating to ApptioBI

This will be done automatically 2024 S1 (Apptio will give us around 6 months to check that everything is OK)
8 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Improve ApptioBI Alerting(Insights) to not require a manual reset

Provide the ability to automatically reset a trigger when trigger, without having to delete are re-create trigger. This will save time. Also provide the ability to generate multiple triggers/alerts for each Dashboard.
8 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

On the Application Dashboard, Provide Total Wait (Latency x Calls) in the dashboards. This would definitely could be added to the top services widget.

The App Dashboard doesn't really let you know what is the busiest service or endpoint that has the most wait. The calls let you know it's busy, but you don't know if it's a problem because it could be a really fast cached call. The latency is good...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Common 0 Future consideration

Provide ability to expand tables within PDF Report

Provide the ability to expand on the tables embedded in the PDF report. Specifically for tables that have subtotals configured
9 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

Sort on Cost or Usage when viewing costs by date dimension

Currently, we are not able to sort by cost or any usage metric when viewing a visual by a date dimension while using Cloudability data. As an example, if I want to see Daily Costs in January, I can not sort from largest to smallest account spend b...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Track rightsizing cost savings for optimization

As discussed on Slack with Lisa Harnett and the team, NVIDIA's resource optimization recommendations could track the rightsizing resource better by tracking the new resource ID. Currently "if you do a blue/green deployment (and the new resource ID...
10 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Include feature "zone" or "label" on Serverless entity like AWS S3, fargate, etc

Customer will be able to group entities based on their own zone category. Everyone who monitor AWS resources (except host-based like EC2) will need this. Put "zone" in the configurable params ie for s3 (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observab...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Common / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Drill Option to be enabled with Net Spend Feature when selecting compare in the time range

Customer wants to create a report which first will report with Net Spend on a Account Name or Cost Center Basis. Once we can identify a cost center with the biggest net spend. We should be able to drill into the table by service name to understand...
11 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 2 Future consideration

All pages that have a graph and filtering radio buttons should also filter the included data table below the graph

In an enterprise environment, focusing on the critical issues is the primary use case driver of using an APM. As such, being able to quickly, and easily sort and order issues is critical. On the various event graphs there is a radio button to hide...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Common / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Custom Dashboards need percent utilizations

in custom dashboards, is there an option to select % utilizations instead of absolute values. As an example for memory utilization, it shows the GB utilized, but, is there way to show % of the allocated memory used.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Common / User Interface 1 Future consideration